Hello and welcome to the Ox Venture podcast. It is a tabletop role-playing game,

Actual Play podcast where we listen to episodes of Ox Venture and talk about them.

I'm going to be one of your hosts. My name's Jane Douglas.

And I'm the other host, Andy Farron. Welcome and happy holidays.

Yeah. And this week we're listening to Kids on Bikes, a Twixtmas disappearance.

It's a Kids on Bikes seasonal one shot.

Mm-hmmed by Ellen Rose, who you may know as a player from Oxfenture, but not necessarily a

games master up until this point, but Ellen has written and directed this holiday festive special from the Kids on Bike System set during that period

between Christmas and New Year that some refer to as Twixtmas. Also, just shout out, Ellen did

also GM Tea Time Adventures, so One Shot Wonder back on Ox Venture like a couple of years ago. Yeah,

yeah, that's why I said not necessarily, because that was the one time that she did do tea time adventures, which you should check out. Okay, the players this week is me and Andy and Mike. So, you know, your favorite trio and all that. And if you'd like to support us and get involved with the official OX supporters club, Discord and everything else, pop over to patreon.com slash OXClub and check it out. Also, don't forget about the podcast network, which we call home, as if you could, it's called Geek Media. That's right. Geek Media is the podcast network from IGN Entertainment, home of all the IGN entertainment podcasts and also their podcasting partners, such as we here on Ox Venture. Just this week on Unlocked, which is Geek Media's Xbox podcast, those folks are talking about how Xbox no-showed at the game awards, but there is apparently good news coming. What's the good news? You'll have to listen and find out, friends. Yeah, where all good podcasts are found. How you doing? How am I doing? This is the week of the year when I have the most work and the most social obligations. So I would say as well as can be expected, which is to say I feel quite tired. But good. It's nice. It's nice to see people. It's nice to catch up with people. There's a lot of good stuff coming to the YouTube channels, which I've been working on.

So, yeah, feeling good.

How about you?

This podcast episode is going up just before Christmas.

So maybe you're listening to it just before Christmas.

Maybe you're listening to it just after.

But the nature of time means that we're recording this a little earlier than that.

Because time is linear and moves ever forward.

So yeah, it's an extremely busy time.

And every year I see the, I see someone share like a post along the lines of, you know,

animals this time of year when it gets dark, when it's dark at 4.30pm.

Animals, they know to like sleep more, rest more, go into a cave, more, go into a cave. Whereas humans, conversely,

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